RE: An AP For descriptive audio

2018-02-19 Thread Sieghard Weitzel 
ActiView is a joke, it has I think 3 movies and the selection has not changed 
in months.


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ActiView was such an app. The problem with these types of apps is that though 
many people want to use them in the theaters instead of the receivers, it seems 
that the apps that have come out, support a very small number of movies. I used 
the Disney Movies Anywhere app in 2016 to see Finding Dory in a theater that 
did not have description. That was an amazing experience and the app just 
worked like it was supposed to. Though Disney promised that one could use it 
for other types of Disney, Pixar, or Star Wars movies, I tried to use it for 
the 2015 Star Wars film on DVD, and it did not work. That app has since been 
discontinued.

Wayne

On 2/17/18, Evan Reese <ment...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Yup, we’re having the same problem with our devices in the theater we go to.
> They used to work great, but now, when the jacks to the headphones 
> aren’t cutting out, which is pretty often, the audio track hums and 
> the volume of the description is inaudible when the movie is in a 
> louder section. We’ve told them about it twice now, so we’ll see if 
> they’ve fixed it the next time we go. I’m not all that confident myself.
> Unfortunately, having only an iPad, I probably won’t be able to use 
> the app, unless I can get on the Internet over a wi-fi network in, or 
> near, the theater.
> Still, it would be nice to know about such an app if it exists.
> Evan
>
> From: cwc
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2018 7:33 PM
> To: VIPhone
> Subject: An AP For descriptive audio
>
> I am looking for an AP which will allow me to pick up the descriptive 
> signals when I am in a movie theater featuring descriptive audio.
> I have seen a couple but they only sync up the file on the phone to 
> play it back when you are in the movie theater. I want something that 
> will replace the receivers that they pass out at the theater, because 
> they don't work most of the time.
> I remember Disney was experimenting with one, but I never heard 
> anything else about it.
>
>
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Re: An AP For descriptive audio

2018-02-19 Thread Wayne Merritt 
ActiView was such an app. The problem with these types of apps is that
though many people want to use them in the theaters instead of the
receivers, it seems that the apps that have come out, support a very
small number of movies. I used the Disney Movies Anywhere app in 2016
to see Finding Dory in a theater that did not have description. That
was an amazing experience and the app just worked like it was supposed
to. Though Disney promised that one could use it for other types of
Disney, Pixar, or Star Wars movies, I tried to use it for the 2015
Star Wars film on DVD, and it did not work. That app has since been
discontinued.

Wayne

On 2/17/18, Evan Reese  wrote:
> Yup, we’re having the same problem with our devices in the theater we go to.
> They used to work great, but now, when the jacks to the headphones aren’t
> cutting out, which is pretty often, the audio track hums and the volume of
> the description is inaudible when the movie is in a louder section. We’ve
> told them about it twice now, so we’ll see if they’ve fixed it the next time
> we go. I’m not all that confident myself.
> Unfortunately, having only an iPad, I probably won’t be able to use the app,
> unless I can get on the Internet over a wi-fi network in, or near, the
> theater.
> Still, it would be nice to know about such an app if it exists.
> Evan
>
> From: cwc
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2018 7:33 PM
> To: VIPhone
> Subject: An AP For descriptive audio
>
> I am looking for an AP which will allow me to pick up the descriptive
> signals when I am in a movie theater featuring descriptive audio.
> I have seen a couple but they only sync up the file on the phone to play it
> back when you are in the movie theater. I want something that will replace
> the receivers that they pass out at the theater, because they don't work
> most of the time.
> I remember Disney was experimenting with one, but I never heard anything
> else about it.
>
>
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Re: An AP For descriptive audio

2018-02-17 Thread Evan Reese 
Yup, we’re having the same problem with our devices in the theater we go to. 
They used to work great, but now, when the jacks to the headphones aren’t 
cutting out, which is pretty often, the audio track hums and the volume of the 
description is inaudible when the movie is in a louder section. We’ve told them 
about it twice now, so we’ll see if they’ve fixed it the next time we go. I’m 
not all that confident myself.
Unfortunately, having only an iPad, I probably won’t be able to use the app, 
unless I can get on the Internet over a wi-fi network in, or near, the theater.
Still, it would be nice to know about such an app if it exists.
Evan

From: cwc 
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2018 7:33 PM
To: VIPhone 
Subject: An AP For descriptive audio

I am looking for an AP which will allow me to pick up the descriptive signals 
when I am in a movie theater featuring descriptive audio. 
I have seen a couple but they only sync up the file on the phone to play it 
back when you are in the movie theater. I want something that will replace the 
receivers that they pass out at the theater, because they don't work most of 
the time. 
I remember Disney was experimenting with one, but I never heard anything else 
about it. 


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